How To Install fim on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fim on Debian 9.
What is fim
fim is:
FIM is a highly customizable scriptable image viewer targeted at the users who are comfortable with software like the Vim text editor or the Mutt mail user agent. FIM aims to be a “swiss army knife” for viewing images. Its code derives from the “Fbi” framebuffer image viewer by Gerd Hoffmann. FIM is multidevice: it has X support via the SDL library and ascii art output via the aalib library.
It supports image description files, file search and filtering using regular expressions on filenames and descriptions, caption display, customizable status line, EXIF tags display, EXIF-based image rotation, recursive directory traversal, reading from stdin, and can e.g. jump between two images remembering scale and position.
It can speed up loading by image caching and speed up scaling with mipmaps. It offers GNU readline command line autocompletion and history, completely customizable key bindings, external/internal (if-while based) scriptability (through return codes, standard input/output, and commands given at invocation time, an initialization file, Vim-like autocommands), and much more.
There are three methods to install fim on Debian 9. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install fim Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install fim using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install fim
Install fim Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install fim using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install fim
Install fim Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install fim using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install fim
How To Uninstall fim on Debian 9
To uninstall only the fim package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove fim
Uninstall fim And Its Dependencies
To uninstall fim and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove fim
Remove fim Configurations and Data
To remove fim configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge fim
Remove fim configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove fim configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge fim
Dependencies
fim have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fim package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.